Not all can be interpreted as reflexive. One clear passive is Qoh 8:10
$kx. A common use of the Hitpael is "act like" something, such as xlh
in 2 Sam 13:5-6. I wouldn't say that this would be a reflexive, but
maybe more of a middle sense.
I believe Russian has some -sya verbs that could not be translated as
reflexive.
For a definition of "middle" I refer to Suzanne Kemmer's (1993), "The
middle voice."
Richard Benton
Vadim Cherny wrote:
IMO, all instances of hitpael in Hebrew are reflexive: doing something_______________________________________________
to someone or, more specifically, to cause someone to cause something.
That is the only plausible interpretation of the suffix ht = hh, two
casuatives (double hiphil, so to say).
That sense of reflective action is obfuscated in translation because
equivalent English words lack the sense of reflexion, but I venture that
careful examination shows such sense for every hitpael.
Vadim Cherny
Isaac Fried wrote:
In present day Hebrew the BINYAN of HITPAEL is often used for mutual
action, for example, HIT-XABQ-U, 'they embraced, XBQ, each other'. Is
there an instance of similar usage in the Hebrew bible?
Isaac Fried, Boston University
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